Bedrooms Are Cool

          It's kind of strange to see a teenager's bedroom without posters or photos or a pile of something.  Without some sort of mess, or a mishmash of colors.  Without a collection of things leading up to this point in her/his life or what he/she wants to do in the future.  Or, you know, not an obvious show of it.
          In some ways, a bedroom is a box we* use to contain our hopes in.
          We hold on to the hope of the happy things we had in our past -- I keep tons of old photos on my walls, old tickets to concerts or movies pinned on my corkboard, books stacked into the empty spaces of my bookcase to not disturb the way I organized my books in 6th grade, and I still have some stuffed animals on my bed. 
          We remind ourselves of the things we want to do someday.  I have big posters of a map of the world and a castle I want to visit in Germany.  I have piles of clothes that suggest that I could just simply not be bothered to put them where they belong, because at that moment, I had something else to do.  I have a stack of postcards and booklets colleges keep sending me at the foot of my bed -- because I'll be darned if I'm quite that ready to grow up yet! 
           And this is probably the reason why bedrooms tell so much about a person.  And why it's so strange to see something "abnormal", like a room with blank walls or no stacks of books or clothes, or with all of their personal things boxed up neatly under their beds.  But it's always interesting. 
           But maybe bedrooms just collect things that people feel define them, in some impossible way.  Which makes it all the more interesting to peek in on.  To see the things that are important to them, in some representation.
           So I like bedrooms.  They're for more than sleeping, even though their name would suggest otherwise. :)

*I say "we" as in "teenagers with bedrooms with lots of personal crap".

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